Workshop Programme

(Version 3, 19/07/04)

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Please note every attempt has been made to make the workshop programme as accurate as possible. However, it may be necessary to make minor changes before the beginning of the workshop for reasons beyond the control of the Organizing Committee. You are advised to log on again as the conference approaches for more up-to-date information.

Wednesday, July 28th 2004

Thursday, July 29th 2004

Friday, July 30th 2004

Saturday, July 31st 2004

 

 Wednesday, July 28th 2004

 

13.30

 

LUNCH

 

  PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

Classroom 1

Classroom 2

15.30

-

15.55

 

Fiona Rossette

 

More ANDs and BUTs about conjunction : interpersonal roles in sentence-initial position

 

 

Jorge Arús Hita

 

Developing literacy in a second language: a systemic-functional approach

 

 

Talaat Pasha

 

Theme and Thematic Progression in Editorials and Advertisements

16.00

-

16.25

 

Susan Hood

 

The spread of interpersonal meaning: Propagating values in academic writing

 

 

Elizabeth Swain

 

Appraisal in expository texts: insights and pedagogical implications

 

Maurice Ward

 

From Foreign Technocrat to Family Member: Integrating Toyota into New Zealand Culture

16.30

-

16.55

 

Casey Whitelaw &

Maria Herke-Couchman

 

Tackling the system:

Using state of the art computational techniques to automate systemic choices of interpersonal distance

 

 

María Martínez Lirola

 

 

The Importance of Teaching Text Linguistics to Increase Students’ Literacy

 

María Jesús Pinar &

Julio César Pinar Sanz

 

A multi-modal discourse analysis of advertising

17.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

 

Classroom 1

 

 

Classroom 2

 

 

Classroom 3

 

17.15

-

17.40

 

Marianne Sandberg

 

Literacy and homepages: turning to the hypertext of academic homepages

 

 

Chrystalla A. Thoma

 

Grammatical metaphor in Greek scientific discourse

 

Beverly Derewianka

 

Key Indicators of Development in Adolescent Writing

 

Lahcen Ghechi

 

Critical reading or how to combat reader illiteracy in hierarchical societies

 

17.45

-

18.10

 

Sabine Bartsch &

Elke Teich

 

Multi-modal representation of construction processes in the mechanical engineering domain

 

 

James D. Benson

 

 

Saussure and Peirce: complementary semiotic perspectives on relational clauses

 

Ann Hewings &

Sarah North

 

Emergent disciplinarity in undergraduate essays: the use of theme as a textual organiser

 

Bodil Hedeboe

 

 

Genre and stance in Swedish students' argumentative texts

18.15

-

18.40

 

 

Michele Zappavigna-Lee, Mick O'Donnell

& Casey Whitelaw

 

Inter-coder reliability and process type

 

 

Peter Muntigl &

Helmut Gruber

 

Generic and Rhetorical Structures of Student Term Papers: Which succeed and which don’t?

 

 

Sylvia Jones

 

 

Solidarity and Stance: learning to argue on-line and off

 

 

19.00

-

20.30

 

PLENARY SPEAKER

Main Room

Jim MARTIN (University of Sydney)

Metadiscourse: meaning, consciousness and literacy learning

 

20.30

-

22.00

OPENING DRINKS

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 Thursday, July 29th 2004

 

9.30

-

11.00

 

PLENARY SPEAKER

Main Room

Caroline COFFIN (Open University)

Reconstruing 'personal time' as 'collective time': learning the discourse of history

 

 

11.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

 

Classroom 1

 

 

Classroom 2

 

11-30

-

11.55

 

Silvia Riesco Bernier

 

The “Communicative Functions Network System”:

A tool enabling the systematic analysis of EFL pre-school teacher talk.

 

 

María BARRIO

 

The multifunctional “and”: logical, discursive and expressive functions through paratactic extension in Spanish EFL compositions

 

Lorraine McDONALD

 

Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form

 

 

12.00

-

12.25

 

Sheena Gardner

 

 

From Regulative to Instructional Register: Towards Partnership Talk in Primary EAL

 

 

Marta Carretero &

Cristina Alonso Vázquez

 

The Realization of Modality in Compositions Written by Pre-University Students

 

Susan Marshall

 

 

From affective to effective; writing academically valued texts in response to literary works in the senior school

 

 

12.30

-

12.55

 

Ernest S. Akerejola

 

Towards a More Effective Language Education Practice in Nigeria

 

 

Elizabeth Thomson

 

The System of Theme in Japanese:

implications for teaching grammar and literacy in the Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) classroom

 

 

Kristina Love

 

On-line discussion around literary texts in secondary English

 

13.00

-

13.25

 

Geoff Thompson

 

Training TEFL trainees to think functionally

 

 

D. Doina Lecca

 

Using WORLD and FACE to Assess the Level of Literacy in L2 Writing

 

 

Christopher Taylor

 

The Language of Film:

Notting Hill – a case study

 

13.30

 

LUNCH

 

 

15.30

-

17.00

 

WORKSHOP 1

Main Room

John Polias

A linguistic tool for reporting on achievement in schooling

 

 

17.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

17.15

-

18.45

 

WORKSHOP 2

Main Room

Brian Dare, Jan Finlayson, Juliana Martino, Lina Russo, Monica Williams

Applying SFG in the classroom

 

 

19.00

-

20.30

 

SPECIAL EVENT

Main Room

Michael Halliday & Ruqaiya Hasan

Retrospective on Literacy

 

 

20.30

-

22.00

CONFERENCE DINNER

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Friday, July 30th 2004

 

9.30

-

11.00

 

PLENARY SPEAKER

Main Room

Angela DOWNING (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Absolute Themes in English and Spanish: A Comparison

 

 

11.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

 

Classroom 1

 

 

Classroom 2

 

11-30

-

11.55

 

Bronwyn Custance

 

Language and Literacy Education at St Brigid’s Primary School: The Development of a Systematic Approach to genre-based explicit teaching of grammar

 

 

Clare Painter

 

Children’s picture book narratives: reading sequences of images

 

Francis J. Sullivan

 

Analyzing Cultural Literacy as a Classroom Performance

 

 

12.00

-

12.25

 

Bronwyn Custance

(Cont.) 

 

Dorothy Economou

 

 

The evaluative orientation of readers through images and image-text relations in news media feature stories

 

 

Michele Zappavigna-Lee &

Jon Patrick

 

Literacy, Tacit Knowledge and Organisational Learning

 

12.30

-

12.55

 

 David Hyatt

 

A Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame for the Introduction of Critical Discourse Analysis in UK Secondary Education

 

Edward McDonald

 

English and Chinglish at China's CNN: issues of literacy at an international second-language broadcaster

 

 

Erich Steiner

 

Language Contact and Multilinguality – exploring an SFL-inspired perspective

 

13.00

-

13.25

 

 Carlos A. M. Gouveia

 

Language, literacy and cultural politics: the debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal

 

 

Eija Ventola

 

Multimodality, Multimediality and Multiliteracies – A New Era for the Press

 

 

Kazuhiro Teruya

 

Literacy of grammatical logic: logic as movement and as object

 

13.30

 

LUNCH

 

 

15.30

-

17.00

 

WORKSHOP 3

Main Room

Gerald Campano, Amy Seely Flint, Tasha Tropp Laman, Mitzi Lewison, Katie Van Sluys

Transforming Critical Language Practices in Elementary Schools through Expanding Cultural and Linguistic Resources.

 

 

17.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

17.15

-

18.45

 

WORKSHOP 4

Main Room

Bob Neilson

Putting grammar into use in academic writing

 

 

PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

 

Classroom 1

 

 

Classroom 2

 

 

Classroom 3

 

19.00

-

19.25

 

Katina Zammit

 

 

Popular culture in the classroom: Interpreting and creating multimodal texts

 

 

Elke Teich &

Peter Fankhauser

 

Supporting lexical cohesion analysis using WordNet

 

 

Kay O'Halloran

 

 

Literacy, Grammar and Mathematics

 

Carys Jones

 

Thematic considerations in discourses and pedagogy from an ESL perspective

19.30

-

19.55

 

Janet Jones

 

Multiliteracies for academic purposes: multimodality in textbook and computer-based learning materials in science at university

 

 

Gordon Tucker

 

On the notion of expectation in language learning

 

David Morley

 

Applying functional syntax to reading literacy

 

Dolores Ramírez Verdugo

 

How literate is EFL speech?

20.00

-

20.25

 

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

 

Multimodality, media of expression, modes of expression and modes of meaning: language and other semiotic systems in the organization of the written page

 

 

Lise Fontaine

 

Nominal Group Structure in Personal Email Texts: an index of email literacy

 

 

Julia Lavid &

Jorge Arús Hita

 

Teaching Transitivity to Second Language Learners: a Systemic-Functional Perspective

 

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 Saturday, July 31st 2004

 

PAPERS

 

Main Room

 

 

Classroom 1

 

 

Classroom 2

 

9.30

-

9.55

 

Paddy Walsh

 

Can functional grammar really help raise literacy standards in UK schools?

 

 

Inger Lassen

 

Reading the potato:

a study of decontextualization and literacy

 

Lynne Flowerdew

 

Designing a proposal writing module: a genre-based literacy app

 

10.00

-

10.25

 

Paddy Walsh

(cont.)

 

Rosa Lorés

 

Knowledge-sharing and knowledge-telling: signalling nouns in academic discourse

 

Carol Thomson &

Mike Hart

 

Swimming Upstream: Introducing the Genre Approach in South African Classrooms

 

10.30

-

10.55

 

Brian Dare

 

Growing grammar

 

 

John Flowerdew

 

Text and Context in Applied Genre Analysis

 

 

Brian Donovan

 

The Language of Secondary School Science:

A Lexicogrammatical and Semantic Comparison of Textbooks with Student Writing in a Specific Content Area

 

 

11.00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

11.30

-

13.00

 

PLENARY SPEAKER

Main Room

Gunther KRESS (University of London, Institute of Education)

'Writing' or 'Text': Thinking around 'Literacy' in the landscape

of contemporary representation and communication

 

 

13.00

 

CLOSING

 

 

13.30

 

LUNCH

 

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